Stuart King
18 Jan
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Review: REHAB THE MUSICAL at Neon 194
By Stuart King Thursday, January 18 2024, 14:29
It’s the late 1990s and an arrogant pop bad boy is caught snorting by the paparazzi and gets lippy with the judge, earning himself 60 days at a rehab facility. It’ll be a doddle, right? But will the young upstart be learning life lessons from his mixed band of fellow recovering addicts, or the other way around?
The company, Rehab the Musical. Photo by Mark Senior
20 Dec
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Review: THE MOTIVE AND THE CUE at Noel Coward
By Stuart King Wednesday, December 20 2023, 10:31
It’s 1964 and movie star Richard Burton (Johnny Flynn) is in rehearsals for a production of Hamlet on Broadway. The stakes could not be higher for the Welshman who’d tied the knot with Elizabeth Taylor (Tuppence Middleton) a mere three weeks before opening night. At the helm, Shakespearean titan Sir John Gielgud (Mark Gatiss) whose classical delivery and poetic appreciation for the text, inform his directorial style and are entirely at odds with Burton’s ferocious modern vision.
The cast of The Motive and the Cue in the West End. © Mark Douet
13 Dec
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Review: ULSTER AMERICAN at Riverside Studios
By Stuart King Wednesday, December 13 2023, 23:17
West London was awash with celebs for Wednesday evening’s opening of David Ireland’s comedy drama ULSTER AMERICAN which premiered at Riverside Studios Hammersmith, to a universally rapturous ovation from the enthralled audience… but what will critics make of it (especially when they were repeatedly disparaged during several actor-y onslaughts)?
Woody Harrelson (Jay Conway) and Andy Serkis (Leigh Carver) in Second Half Production's Ulster American at Riverside Studios - photo by Johan Persson
13 Dec
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Review: ROCK 'N' ROLL at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, December 13 2023, 11:21
With its slightly left of left-field title, Tom Stoppard’s 2006 work ROCK ‘N’ ROLL tells a generational love story through the political dissection and intellectual cut and thrust of 1960s European communism, particularly as it found a home in Czechoslovakia.
Nathaniel Parker & Jacob Fortune-Lloyd in Rock 'n' Roll. Credit Manuel Harlan
06 Dec
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Review: THE HOMECOMING at The Young Vic
By Stuart King Wednesday, December 6 2023, 12:26
US-based philosophy professorTeddy returns to his north London family home with his wife Ruth. His domineering father Max, together with brothers Joey, Lenny and chauffeur Uncle Sam exude a simmering testosterone-fuelled air which pervades the all-male home, as each attempts to dominate (with varying degrees of success) every conversation or situation, irrespective of context or subject. Was there ever written an uglier example of hierarchical and self-perpetuating toxic masculinity?
Lisa Diveney and Joe Cole in The Homecoming at Young Vic. © Manuel Harlan
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